The horses started racing the wind again at noon after they finished eating lunch.

Shizuna wanted to enter a race with John, who continued to provoke her in a childish manner, which increased her anger, but Tom refused and decided to enter the race instead of her while she is just an additional passenger on the horse.

His horse, and in the end John won because Tom did not want to speed up and maneuver too much so as not to hurt Shizuna or get sick.

Tom kept trying to please Shizuna all the way because she was mad at him for losing to Jun, even though he just wanted to work it out between the two of them.

And so the two days of wandering passed, with enough rest for the bounty hunters and their horses. Several disagreements arose between Shizuna and Jun during this short period, but their relationship seemed more agreeable than it had been at their first meeting.

The city they arrived at was thriving with visitors like them, as it is a point of contact between two economic zones separated by a long distance, and thus this city became a center of attraction that encourages people to do more business and commercial exchanges.

The bounty hunters parted to go about their business, for they would set out again in the evening when the sun went down. Some of them went to gather supplies and fill the cart, while others went wandering.

Tom and Shizuna were walking around the streets of the city while looking around, when one of them ran into them while running quickly.

He got up from the ground and continued running again without even thinking of apologizing, and suddenly he saw Tom who was helping Shizuna to get up; John is running fast after that crazy man. And suddenly Shizuna shouted at Tom as she dragged him to run towards John:

She saw his picture among the wanted.. Let's catch up with him quickly before that crazy John beats us to him...

Hmmm..he's older than you..so you have to show him some respect...

we don't have time for something like that..hurry up...

Tom's hand let go and I started running after I got tired of pulling him and he refused to move, but despite Whoever ignored her words followed her silently and started running.

The streets they passed were very crowded, so Shizuna climbed a store sign pole to start jumping between the rooftops of the houses, shops, and close-to-height buildings that are so common in the city.

She turned left after she saw the wanted man from afar turning too, and Tom was still struggling in the crowd, while pushing this and pushing him, and John was close to catching the loot had it not been for the fatigue that invaded his body because he had not eaten any food yet since Their last stop before arriving in this city.

The chase continued until the wanted man entered a large square where many wandering people and merchants gathered. He tried to mingle with the people in order to escape from the sight of the bounty hunters who were chasing men.

Shizuna stood tall in the middle of the arena where she hit that sudden blow, while Tom and John stood in amazement at her speed, John tried to get close to the wanted person and catch him, but the person who bumped into him directly grabbed him by the collar and started punching him violently until he threw him towards the three who Standing in front of him (Shizuna, John and Tom), he seemed angry and upset about what happened, so Tom advanced towards him and tried to explain the matter calmly to get their loot without problems.

He was the wanted man they were after; He was unconscious while he could barely breathe from the swelling of his face, which had been slashed.

People gathered around to watch what was happening, when one of them aroused Shizuna's interest, he looked like a little boy of seven or eight years old, he was standing in magic chains behind the men whom the wanted man had bumped into, to prevent him from turning into mashed potatoes, he was trembling While looking around for an escape.

John and Tom kept squabbling with the angry man with the long nose and sharp chin, only to finally get back the loot.

Tom thought it was over if Shizuna hadn't disappeared before him without noticing.

He looked around to find her among those men headed by the angry man. Shizuna stood in front of the child and removed the mask from him to show her his distorted face.

She was surprised for a moment and could not take her eyes off him, simply because he looked so disgusting in an indescribable way, and she was not the only one, but that was the reaction of everyone who could glimpse his face from far:

H.. help.. please...

the boy whispered to her, begging her, because she was his last hope before he was sold as a merchandise in this yard, after all everyone would want to invest in a baby dragon who was kicked out of his collection because of his disfigurement.

As everyone knows, dragons are narcissistic beings to a large extent, and they revere beauty, strength and appearance.

Dragons have great pride regarding their appearance, whether when they take human form or when they return to their true form.

Shizuna raised her head and grabbed the boy's hand to make him stand behind her as if to protect him, when in fact she was avoiding looking at him so as not to show her disgust in his face, then she exclaimed in a loud voice:

Who dares mess with my son...?

Some opened their mouths in shock, while others mocked them after a short stupor.

The angry man was about to punch her after he ran out of patience with the interference of these three in his work, except that Tom intervened at the last moment and confronted him with a reverse punch, before he said mockingly to the one who bounced back Because he was suddenly beaten:

girls get hit too.. what a scoundrel...

The one with the sharp chin impatiently lunges at him and they get into a fistfight, that is before his henchmen try to step in to help him, causing Shizuna and Jun to start fighting as well, and soon they are all knocked down.

He heard a strong hitting on the ground with a heavy iron tool, the fighting stopped and everyone turned to the source of the sound, to find a man in his forties standing with a huge iron hammer in his hand, his aura was covering his surroundings and forcing everyone to show respect to him.